The handbook of reparations
By: edited by Pablo De Greiff.
Contributors: De Greiff, Pablo.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1020
ISBN-13: 9780199291922
Subjects: Reparations for historical injustices; Restorative justice; Human rights -- Moral and ethical aspects
Description: "Offering the most comprehensive book-length study to-date of reparation programs, this handbook contains an innovative blend of case-study analysis, thematic papers, and national legislation documents from leading scholars and practitioners. This landmark work will make a genuine contribution to the theory and practice of reparations."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction : Repairing the past : compensation for victims of human rights violations / Pablo de Greiff; title: Economic reparations for grave human rights violations : the Argentinean experience / María José Guembe; title: The reparations policy for human rights violations in Chile / Elizabeth Lira; title: The reparations program in Brazil / Ignacio Cano and Patrícia Salvão Ferreira; title: The reparations proposals of the truth commissions in El Salvador and Haiti : a history of noncompliance / Alexander Segovia; title: Overview of the reparations program in South Africa / Christopher J. Colvin; title: Reparations in Malawi / Diana Cammack; title: Report on redress : the Japanese American internment / Eric K. Yamamoto and Liann Ebesugawa; title: Compensation for the victims of September 11 / Samuel Issacharoff and Anna Morawiec Mansfield; title: The United Nations compensation commission / Hans van Houtte, Hans Das, and Bart Delmartino; title: German reparations to the Jews after World War II : a turning point in the history of reparations / Ariel Colonomos  and Andrea Armstrong; title: Making good again : German compensation for forced and slave laborers / John Authers; title: Justice and reparations / Pablo de Greiff; title: Reparations, international law, and global justice : a new frontier / Richard Falk; title: Justice in context : the relevance of inter-American human rights law and practice to repairing the past / Arturo J. Carrillo; title: Reparations and civil litigation : compensation for human rights violations in transitional democracies / Jaime E. Malamud-Goti and Lucas Sebastián Grosman; title: Narrowing the micro and macro : a psychological perspective on reparations in societies in transition / Brandon Hamber; title: Reparations and mental health : psychosocial interventions towards healing, human agency, and rethreading social realities / M. Brinton Lykes and Marcie Mersky; title: Reparation of sexual violence in democratic transitions : the search for gender justice / Colleen Duggan and Adila M. Abusharaf; title: Financing reparations programs : reflections from international experience / Alexander Segovia; title: Reparations and microfinance schemes / Hans Dieter Seibel with Andrea Armstrong.